Get Ready for the Perfect Shopping Combo: Tax-Free Weekend + Back-to-School! As summer comes to a close and the school bell begins to ring, it’s time to gear up for an exciting shopping extravaganza and this weekend, we have an incredible opportunity to save big while checking off all those back-to-school essentials, thanks to the much-anticipated Tax-Free Weekend!
Alabama’s 17th annual sales tax holiday for school-related items begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 21, 2023, and ends at midnight Sunday, July 23, 2023, giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers, books and clothing free of the state’s four percent sales or use tax.
Here’s what’s included:
Clothing Items Included: ($100 or less per item)
Belts
Boots
Caps
Coats
Diapers
Dresses
Gloves
Gym Suits
Hats
Hosiery
Jackets
Jeans
Neckties
Pajamas
Pants
Raincoats
Robes
Sandals
Scarves
School Uniforms
Shirts
Shoes
Shorts
Socks
Sneakers
Underwear
School Supplies List: (Sale Price of less than $50 per item)
Binders
Blackboard Chalk
Book Bags
Calculators
Cellophane Tape
Compasses
Composition Books
Crayons
Erasers
Folders (expandable, pocket, plastic & manila)
Glue, paste, and paste sticks
Highlighters
Index Cards
Index Card Boxes
Legal Pads
Lunch Boxes
Markers
Notebooks
Paper (loose leaf ruled notebook paper, copy paper, graph paper, tracing paper, manila paper, colored
paper, poster board, and construction paper)
Pencil Boxes & Other School
Supply Boxes
Pencil Sharpeners
Pencils
Pens
Protractors
Rulers
Scissors
Writing Tablets
Art Supplies:
Clay & Glazes
Paints
(Acrylic, Tempora & Oil)
Paintbrushes for artwork
Sketch and Drawing Pads
Watercolors
Computers: (A single purchase of $750 or less)
Computer Storage Media; diskettes, compact disks
Handheld electronic schedulers, except devices that are cellular phones
Personal digital assistants, except devices that are cellular phones
Computer Printers
Printer Supplies for Computers (printer paper, printer ink)
